This is an analysis of the poem My Cross that begins with:
I wrote a poem to the moon
But no one noticed it;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcac dedefgfg hdhdibib djdjkeke
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010001 111100 11111111 111101 01001110 010101 11110111 1101 11010101 101111 11010101 110101 11000111 110001 11011101 0101 11011111 110101 10010101 110101 11010101 011101 01010111 1101 11010111 111101 11110001 110101 11110101 011011 11110001 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 226
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words its, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of My Cross;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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